Premium BBQ Grills Buyers Guide

Selecting the best professional grade, built-in BBQ grill or grill head – like we like to call it – for your backyard can be a daunting task, even for a professional chef. Mainly, because each luxury brand possess a set a features and complimentary accessories that offer different experiences.

It’s like choosing the right luxury car that best matches your personality, style and budget. When you see it and test it, you’ll know it’s the one. The same occurs with high-end BBQ grills.

Depending on your cooking style (grilling, smoking, barbecuing, etc.) or the variety of foods you’d like to cook on your grill, each brand offers practical features you might find more appealing over others.

The fact of the matter is that most brands of luxury BBQ grills, such as Alfresco, Blaze, DCS, Delta Heat, PGS, TwinEagles, Viking and Vintage have features in common.

Each one offers premium grade stainless steel construction, some kind of anti-flare system and long lasting warranties.

Additionally, many of these high end grills versatile cooking devices. You can rotisserie, bake, smoke, even roast; expanding your outdoor cooking opportunities more than ever before.

Let’s highlight some of those specific features that will help you sort our which BBQ grill is best for you.

Alfresco Grills Features Highlights

The Alfresco line of residential outdoor luxury grills and accessories is restaurant inspired and uses the same manufacturing methodologies used in their commercial restaurant equipment. They are sturdy. Built to last. Alfresco offers a wide variety of accessories that complement their premium line of grills, including pizza ovens and refrigeration.

The U- shaped burners deliver 27,500 BTUs each and are made from stainless steel andtitanium. You’ll never have to worry about burner malfunctions, they come with a lifetime warranty.

The infrared Sear Zone™ burner generates 27,500 BTUs and reaches 1500° F in as little as four minutes.

Convenience Features

The cooking grates are 3/8 inch round stainless steel rods with a special non-stick polished finish.

The adjustable food warming rack can still be used while the rotisserie is engaged. The rack can also convenient for holding or cooking above the grill surface.

To clean the briquettes, simply flip the tray over, fire up the burners to high and close the lid.

The LED control panel lighting beams a warm amber light exactly where you need it. You will also find integrated high-intensity halogen work lights for convenient night cooking. The lights are slightly tilted to maximize lighting coverage on the surface of the grill. The lens can be removed without tools for easy cleaning and to replace light bulbs.

The rotisserie motor is integrated into the grill head and out of sight and ready to go. You get 120 lb. of whisper quiet torque force to turn any food item no matter how big.

The integrated wood smoker comes with a dedicated 5,000 BTU stainless steel burner. The drawer holds large chunks of wood and is cold smoke capable.

Easy open and close hood with hidden non-corrosive stainless steel torsion system that lasts many years.

Manufacturing Features

Available in 56″, 42″, 36″ and 30″ models.

The nickel-plated control knobs are sleek looking and easy to turn. The stainless steel push button ignition, lighting and rotisserie controls are integrated into the front of the panel.

The heat protected wiring means that you’ll never have to worry about shorts or faults due to melted wire casings.

Each grill is built with a special air circulation flow that keep the front and top of the control panel safely cool to the touch.

Twin Eagles Premium Grills Features Highlights

The Twin Eagles line of premium grills makes use of stylish geometric designs that blend in perfectly with both classic and contemporary architecture. It’s extended line of accessories and refrigeration allows for a complete custom outdoor kitchen setup.

Heating Features

Twin Eagles grills combine both direct heat from strategically placed ports and channels with radiant heat emanating from ceramic briquettes to distribute heat to the grill surface evenly and quickly.

Zone dividers allow each 25,000 BTU U-shaped burner, to heat each zone to different temperatures or cook with only one burner.

Each burner is constructed with 14 gauge, 304 stainless steel and comes with a lifetime warranty.

Decorative blue LED light illuminate the knobs even when the grill is not in use. The electric hot surface ignitors operate by pushing in the burner or rotisserie control knob.

Each grill is built with drafting vents that draw air from the bottom of the firebox, keeping the heat above the burners.

PGS Grills Features Highlights

PGS Grills offer outstanding performance and are available with all the essential accessories you need to create an impressive small to medium size outdoor kitchen or island, including side burners, storage and beverage center.

Heating Features:

The PGS Grills feature all stainless steel cooking grids which come in variably spaced grill rods (Vari Grid). This unique feature allows you to choose your amount of surface to food contact or the amount of direct heat onto your food or cookware.

One of the best, most comprehensive warranties on the market, on all components includes outstanding customer services and support.

DCS Outdoor Grills Features Highlights

DCS Outdoor products are engineered to deliver the functionality and power demanded by a professional chef. The hand-finished craftsmanship offers the quality you look for in your premium outdoor kitchen.

DCS outdoor grills offers all the great features needed for a complete outdoor kitchen including heated drawers, rotisserie, storage space, double sided cast stainless steel grilling grates, and a patented grease system that keeps everything clean, saving you time and effort.

Heating Features:

DCS grills uses ceramic rods to provide intense, yet even heat to the cooking surface. The U-shape stainless steel burners are rated 25,000 BTUs each. Optionally, you can choose their innovative Infrared Emitter which transforms the heat from the burner into natural infrared heat.

Delta Heat Premium Grills Features Highlights

The Delta Heat premium line of grills offers complementary accessories that bring your backyard kitchen to life. Delta Heat brings together all the features and functions you look for in a premium grill, in style.

Nighttime grilling is easy with the integrated internal halogen light.

Decorative blue lights adorn the control panel knobs, even when not in use.

Every Delta Heat grill hood is double lined, keeping the server cool to the touch.

The 9v electronic ignition is reliable and effective.

Manufacturing Features:

Delta Heat grills are available in 26″, 32″ and 38″ models

Body constructed from 304 stainless steel. The Delta Heat is definitely built to last.

The awesome control panels mean that it looks great in your outdoor kitchen when you’re entertaining your family or your friends from work. It doesn’t really matter, because your new home kitchen can do it all- so you can relax and enjoy barbecuing like it should be.

Viking Luxury Grills Features Highlights

Viking outdoor grills offers some of the largest commercial grade grills for residential use. Viking’s wide range of accessories include vents, refrigeration and cabinets for both your indoor and outdoor kitchens.

Heating Features:

The ceramic briquettes heat distribution system provides even heat distribution.

Vintage grills smoking system uses a drawer that pulls out from the control panel and is equipped with a 7,000 BTU smoker burner

Natural Gas ready – Liquid Propane conversion kit included.

The double-walled, insulated canopy comes with an integrated hood thermometer.

Choosing the right grill and complementary accessories for your outdoor kitchen is easier when you can see and touch the difference. To get started with your outdoor kitchen project, visit your local dealer.